@DavidCarlisle and @yo' -- It's not "most" books just yet, but several important book series, with another very active series on the way. (I was copied on the message from the person who is now essentially my successor, and he's trustworthy about such things.) Journals will take a while -- I suspect it's because the production schedule is much more rushed than for books, and some automated checking, necessary to keep to schedule, is much more easily done in a dvi-output environment.

@barbarabeeton sorry for the over exaggeration hard for an outsider to translate from acronyms for book series to some objective quantity, but actually I was surprised, I didn't know the opentype fonts were in production at all.

@DavidCarlisle -- This was actually in planning at the time I left, and it sounds like it has actually happened. The series that were reported (three out of about a dozen) typically don't have lots of graphics, and one of them is a "small" format. They are also more textbook-y than expository. The stix2 fonts, being based on Times, are more compact than CM, so the expected result is a decreased page count per volume.

@PauloCereda I was wondering if that is what it was (Brazilian Portuguese); thanks for confirming it! Re “gringo”, I always thought it was a derogatory term used by people in Latin America about (white skinned?) Americans and Europeans, but Wikipedia put me straight. Especially this part: In Brazil, the word gringo means simply foreigner, and has no connection to any physical characteristics or specific countries.

@FaheemMitha It's certainly different, but I am not the right person to say how. As I understand it, there are differences both in pronunciation and vocabulary. A bit like the difference between US English and The Queen's English. This should not come as a surprise. A few centuries of geographic separation will do that.

@FaheemMitha There is, of course, a wikipedia article. Note in particular the section on loanwords.

@DavidCarlisle, @barbarabeeton That's interesting news and I wonder if AMS might be pursued to say something public about it; is it for example mentioned somewhere in 'Instructions for Authors'? It's something that the team generally and Will specifically likely need to keep in mind

@DavidCarlisle, @barbarabeeton Not that Will is about to break anything, more that it's a pretty clear sign that the days of pdfTeX as the major engine are limited; the AMS is probably one of the most 'conservative' publishers, so if XeTeX/Unicode/OpenType works there, it really should work for everyone

@barbarabeeton I see my article has already ruffled feathers because I want to use lots of non-Latin letters in monotype :)

@HaraldHanche-Olsen Yes, I momentarily forgot about Wikipedia. Thanks for the reminder. Though a native speaking probably has his or her own perspective.

@JosephWright I assumed LuaTeX was more likely. The version I heard was that once Harfbuzz was merged into LuaTeX (which, as I understand, has already happened), XeTeX would no longer have any compelling advantages.

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@JosephWright @barbarabeeton not particularly well advertised, but once you have a hint... if you go to the author resources for one of the book series, say ams.org/arc/books/book-produce.html and download maatex.zip the contained maabook.cls has:

@Skillmon Normally it's only mentioned in the sources, but it if you put in typeset text, by consistent with how you write 'LaTeX' elsewhere (e.g. biblatex traditionally just said 'LaTeX' not \LaTeX, but most people go with the latter)

Okay @DavidCarlisle but I am new to Stack Overflow so I have less reputation. That makes it really difficult for me to comment on posts. I already asked it as a question, but I guess not many saw it really for the same reasons

I am working on a report and I want a border on all pages. I have managed to have a border by using the solution provided here:
https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/808/205277
But it won't work on all pages. Any ideas on how to do it? I so wanted to comment on the question itself for help but since I...

@AntarikshPratham far more people will see the question there than if you ask in chat (where basically only yo' and I will see it and it will scroll off soon and not be seen by anyone) But you need to improve your question include a small complete document that shows the problem. Currently your question says. "I did something and something did not work, how do I fix it" but without giving any hint of what ypu did or what error you got, nothing really can be said.

@Szabolcs yes but the defaults (especially the boxes) really are horrible, and I do have write access..... Probably we can't change hyperref but at some point there will no doubt be a more integrated l3 version and hopefully we can get better defaults...

@DavidCarlisle we could add an option "nicecolors". But someone else will have to suggest the colors (unless you want to use the colortbl or chessboard colors ...) - perhaps we could start a competition.

@DavidCarlisle Yes, the boxes are horrible, but my pet peeve after that is the colour named green, which is way too bright to be readable on a white background. It must be darkened considerably. Especially (though that is a different matter) when people use it in presentations. I realise that one can't just go and make the named colour darker, but it is tempting.

@UlrikeFischer Now I know that. But for a first-time user it was intuitive.

@UlrikeFischer just use the colours hyperref uses with the colorlinks option instead of the boxes, but mix those colours with <color>!80!black (looks a lot better at least for the red internal links, for external links I use purple!80!black, and I never have file-links)

@JosephWright -- I don't think it's so much the inclusion of non-Latin letters (which I think are really a good thing) as the fact that the font you call for isn't readily available, at least not from TeX Live/CTAN, and TUGboat doesn't have permission to use it. Font permission is nontrivial. Although permission is sometimes given for free, payment may be requested, or sometimes outright refusal.

Ok, I took a look at `xkcdcolors` and came up with the following values for `hyperref`:
linkcolor: xkcdBloodRed
anchorcolor: black
citecolor: xkcdVomit
filecolor: xkcdLightishBlue
menucolor: xkcdBloodRed
runcolor: filecolor
urlcolor: xkcdUglyPurple

@UlrikeFischer Of course, some might find value in preserving the distinction between various types of links (instead of using the same colour for all of them). The simplest solution that I would recommend is:

@Skillmon Any particular reason why when copying and pasting from the documentation (expkv from git using atril or evince) I get (at least) an expandable hkey i=hvalue i implementation Jonathan P. Spratte ∗ -- v.

That's what I do when I make plots for publication. I look at a nice colour table like the one above and pick a pleasing set, then keep using those consistently. (And maybe consult my colourblind colleague before making the final decision :)

@PabloGonzálezL the numbers are oldstyle numbers which might not be correctly supported by your viewer (they aren't for mine as well). Also evince somehow doesn't get the angle brackets correctly, which my viewer does.

@JosephWright -- Well, the usual procedure is that Karl produces a pdf file in the TUGboat style, then turns it over to me for editing. (Although I can edit from source, it's really easier formatted.) So having a problem with generating a pdf is a bottleneck. If you posted both source and a pdf, I would have read it right away.

@Skillmon you can look in the glyphtounicode.tex. It only contains long list of glyphs. E.g. \pdfglyphtounicode{oneoldstyle}{0031}. And this tells the pdf viewer that the glyph oneoldstyle should be handled like a 1.

@UlrikeFischer it would be enough to {} the filename in luatex wouldn't it? or at least that's what I seemed to think when I made the answer here, or we could switch over to the filenamesize test which might be better.... maybe I'll re-assign the issue to you and you can decide:-)

@UlrikeFischer yes {} has to be luatex only, some permutation of some of the letters of filenamesize would be \pdffilesize which can give an expandable iffileexists test which I think we have a ticket that suggests we could use it once it is in all the engines we support

@UlrikeFischer in which case openin behaviour would not matter so much

@DavidCarlisle and @AlanMunn -- The recent question about a 1985 dissertation prepared with AMSTeX persuades me to suggest that, while such a list of obsolete material seems highly useful, there should be some caveats about the possible continued usefulness of such material in resuscitating old documents.

@barbarabeeton Yes, of course, that's definitely an issue to consider as well. But it's quite clearly a special case. And with maybe a few exceptions I don't think a list of deprecated package would necessarily be suggesting their removal in old documents.

Although there are two cases to consider, the beginners, who read random advice on the web without having any sense of its current value, and the old-timers who keep repeating the stuff they've been doing since grad school. Unfortunately it's the latter that often produce the documentation that the former read.

@AlanMunn -- Well, it should be easy enough to stress that the recommendations apply to new documents. (I guess I should be glad that my master's thesis was typed on an "executive" typewriter, not produced by a computer program. So I didn't get inoculated with subversive ideas.)

@PauloCereda I have very little experience with DHL. I've never used them myself and only occasionally have I received something delivered by them. They're not much used as a domestic carrier in the US I don't think.

@AlanMunn @barbarabeeton thank you. I had serious problems with them recently. They managed to damage two packages from Amazon, in a row. Now Amazon decided to offer me free priority shipping, and DHL failed to honour the date. Amazon now offered me a full refund, and if the item, by the grace of God, happens to reach me somewhere in the near future, it's mine free of charge. :)

@PauloCereda Sorry to hear that. Let's hope they do arrive. Although I suspect that it's hard for shipping companies to guarantee international deliveries because of customs issues. Don't forget the great Argentinian sock debacle of 2018. :)

@HaraldHanche-Olsen The whole thing, or just the math? Was it also written in Latin? :)

mornings. I am getting an undefined control sequence with "l.3 \global\mtcsecondpartfalse" after installing texlive-lang-french (I think this is related but have no certainty). I'm not quite sure how to google for a solution, and I'm actually rather unsure what the problem is, I've removed all actual content in the tex file and the error persists, which makes me think it'd rather be a problem with how I've installed packages?

@Skillmon mail ctan@ctan.org and tell them to ignore the existing file and another one is on the way, if you are in time that's usually OK, if they have already installed they will probably want you to bump the version number

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@DavidCarlisle -- Here's what Wikipedia has to say about a song that was on a record from (I think) Folkways that I first heard in about 1960: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Day_Dodgers . It's sung to the tune of Lili Marlene. I can't find an audio version on the net; it's older than any of the recordings listed in the Wikipedia article.

Hmmm, I am trying to begin an align* environment in the second horizsontal cell of a tabular environment, but it says that I have an overfull box, which I presume is because the align* environment tries to occupy the whole width without knowing about the tabular environment? Is there a way to get the align env to fit its parent cell somehow?

hmmm, is it poor practice to override commands in our own set of files? I mean, I'M probably the only human who'll ever work in my math notes transcriptions, but I wonder if renewcommand-ing something like \det should be avoided?

@UlrikeFischer for only 10000 euros VW woudl let me have the pantone configuration and color profiles for the name.... But actually you can't see the original colour at the moment as it's more \color[named]{mud}

@UlrikeFischer Wow, I really didn't expect such a positive response! Thanks so much for seriously considering the request. It's late at night here right now. I'll post some suggestions tomorrow if I get the time (unless someone else has already posted one that I like very much)